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Benicio del Toro: five best momentsThe finest scenes from the Oscar-winning actor who takes on the role of the infamous drug lord in Escobar: Paradise Lost -
Forbes's top-paid actors: we need one list for all gendersBy splitting the annual pay lists between men and women, we’re missing a chance to highlight a pay disparity that means Hollywood can hire Emma Stone, Natalie Portman and Anne Hathaway for less than the price of one Adam Sandler
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Automo-Bale: Dark Knight star in driver's seat of new Ferrari biopicThe Dark Knight star has signed on for Michael Mann’s long-awaited drama about the Italian car magnate -
Heading Homer: Hugh Jackman embarks on The OdysseyThe Wolverine star is in talks to take on the lead in an retelling of the Greek poem from the director of The Hunger Games sequels -
The Treatment: a sinewy child abduction thrillerPeter Bradshaw recommends why Hans Herbots’ gloomy, sinewy thriller about a cop on the trail of a paedophile
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The Mend review – tongue-in-cheek tale of self-destruction pays offThis rule-breaking film knows it’s far up its own ass, and that’s a well-suited tone for these troubled New Yorkers
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Gemma Bovery review – a sugary snack of a filmFabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton star in a watchable if contrived adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a French baker and his British neighbour
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The President review – a formidable political parableIranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf explores what happens to deposed dictators with dyspeptic ferocity
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The Guardian film show: The Wolfpack, Gemma Bovery, The Dance of Reality and The President - video reviewsThe film team review this week’s new releases, including The Wolfpack, about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation and Gemma Bovery, a sleepy adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic, starring Gemma Arterton
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The President - video reviewThe film team review Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s satire about a dictator barged out of his seat of power in an unnamed country
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Gemma Bovery - video reviewThe film team watch Gemma Arterton idle around rural France as a bored housewife in Anne Fontaine’s take on Posy Simmond’s version of Madame Bovary
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Why bad films aren't getting the disrespect they deserveAdam Sandler’s Pixels was a recent rare example of a truly terrible movie getting a cinema release. With studios now burying their turkeys on Netflix, we’re unlikely to enjoy the pleasure of hating another Showgirls or Gigli
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American Ultra: should the amnesiac spy trope be forgotten?From Bourne to Total Recall, the amnesiac spy trope has been used over and over to put the protagonist and viewer in the same boat. But is that getting old?
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Summer 2015 films put real women above Manic Pixie Dream GirlsThe tired archetype has been replaced by a woman not so easily reducible to a catchphrase – one allowed to be fully human
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And next year's Oscar for looking like the person you play in the biopic goes to …These days awards season guarantees one thing: a raft of movies based on real-life events featuring big name actors in disguise. So which 2015/16 contender wins in the lookalike stakes?
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Zoë Kravitz: ‘Why do stories happen to white people and everyone else is a punchline?’The actor has been stranded on the edges of blockbusters such as Mad Max: Fury Road and the Divergent series, but ahead of new film Dope she’s taking on Hollywood’s stereotypes and making a name for herself
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Lily Tomlin: ‘Women are forever the last recipients of progress’The star of Grandma talks about the fight for equal pay and wearing a tiara to the Oscars
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Kids from Larry Clark's Kids: 'We were like the United Nations of skateboarding'It’s been 20 years since Larry Clark’s film first shocked America, but its legacy has been felt far beyond celluloid. The skateboarders who appeared in the film talk about its impact and how it helped to shape big brands such as Supreme
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The Wolfpack do London: the brothers imprisoned for 14 years hit the big cityConfined to their apartment by their parents, the Angulos learned about the world from movies. New documentary The Wolfpack tells their amazing story
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Gemma Arterton: ‘If you start on me I will defend myself’The actor, 29, on performing in French, falling out of love with marriage and becoming middle class
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Rupert Friend: I thought acting wasn’t for meThree years ago the actor was on the verge of giving up. Then Homeland came calling. He talks to Tom Lamont about the CIA, leaving London for the US and why he really misses the pub
regulars
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Five best moments
Five best momentsBenicio del Toro: five best momentsThe finest scenes from the Oscar-winning actor who takes on the role of the infamous drug lord in Escobar: Paradise Lost
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The film quiz
The film quizSummer blockbusters 2015: how much can you remember? - quizThe sun has retired and the ice cream has melted. Which means this year’s city-saving, helicopter-crashing, cinematic universe-expanding multiplex-fillers have come to an end. Were you paying attention? (spoiler warning)
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DVDs and downloads
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Philip French's classic DVD
Philip French's classic DVD3 Women review – exquisite early Robert Altman film3 Women is among the least seen of Altman’s early films and one in which he took a particular pride
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainment
Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentTrump: What’s The Deal?: a distinctly 90s takedownDonald Trump’s legal team put the kibosh on Libby Handros’s documentary in 1991. Now on Vimeo for all to see, it’s a quaint reminder of a more restrained era in non-fiction film-making
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloads
Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsThe Knick, The Duff, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Run All Night, Song One, Still the Water, Open Range – reviewsSteven Soderbergh’s gory hospital drama is grotesquely human, Pygmalion is reworked with sass and Kevin Costner puts soul into the sagebrush
best of 2015
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The best films of 2015 so far – UKGathering together the best movies released in the UK this year, updated weekly
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The best films of 2015 so far – AustraliaGathering the best movies released in Australia this year, updated weekly
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The best films of 2015 – USGathering together the best movies released in the US this year, from A Most Violent Year to Furious 7, updated weekly
you may have missed
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The Quay Brothers: a nightmarish inspiration for Christopher NolanThe sci-fi director’s new documentary investigates the animator Quay twins. Here, they reveal how British weather, maths and lizards help to create their films
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Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up the gunThe long read: Shootouts and fist-fights are no longer a young man’s game. Hollywood is rebranding ageing actors as action heroes – but it still discards older women
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From Holly to Annie to Brooke: the women of cinema who personify New YorkAs Mistress America opens this weekend to rave reviews, Greta Gerwig’s role says as much about Manhattan now as did Holly Golightly in 1961
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How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstreamFrom pariahs to candidates for the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame: ahead of a biopic tracing NWA’s career, Danny Kelly recalls their incendiary 1980s arrival and salutes their influence on music, fashion, business, language and social activism
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Dangerous Minds at 20: has the ultimate white saviour story aged well?It was a big hit in 1995 with lackluster reviews, but even the woman who inspired it has reservations about the film starring Michelle Pfeiffer
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Amy Grimehouse is Secret Cinema's trashy, drag-loving cousinThe underground movie night specialises in camp screenings and immersive events, from Tudor drag balls to doggy assault courses. Just don’t be surprised if a raw fish lands on you
No Escape's Owen Wilson: 'What would you do to save your family? You'd do anything' – video